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Direct linkDegani, Tamar; Tokowicz, Natasha – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
Relatively little is known about the role of ambiguity in adult second-language learning. In this study, native English speakers learned Dutch-English translation pairs that either mapped in a one-to-one fashion (unambiguous items) in that a Dutch word uniquely corresponded to one English word, or mapped in a one-to-many fashion (ambiguous items),…
Descriptors: Semantics, Translation, Figurative Language, English
